Chapter Description

Learn how to use more advanced editing techniques to create a static title with the Abobe Premiere Pro Title tool; work in your Timeline to apply various clip-trimming techniques, apply and modify an effect to clips, incorporate RED footage, create simple dissolve transitions between clips, and generate a preview render of your Timeline; edit closed captions, use the Warp Stabilizer effect to smooth unsteady camera movement in a clip, and upload a file and sync your settings to Creative Cloud.

From the Book

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Lesson overview

In the previous lesson, you created a basic edit with Adobe Premiere Pro. In this lesson, you’ll use more advanced editing techniques and learn how to

Apply various clip-trimming techniques in your Timeline

Apply and modify an effect to clips in your Timeline

Incorporate RED footage into your Timeline

Create simple dissolve transitions between clips in your Timeline

Create a static title with the Abobe Premiere Pro Title tool

Edit closed captions

Use the Warp Stabilizer effect to smooth unsteady camera movement in a clip

Generate a preview render of your Timeline

Upload a file and sync your settings to Creative Cloud

This lesson will take approximately 120 minutes to complete.

Download this lesson and its project files from the Lesson & Update Files tab on your Account page at www.peachpit.com and store them on your computer in a convenient location, as described in the Getting Started section of this book.

Your Account page is also where you’ll find any updates to the chapters or to the lesson files. Look on the Lesson & Update Files tab to access the most current content.

Important! Currently, Adobe Premiere Pro CC does not retain interpret-footage settings on clips even though those clips don’t need relinking. Refer to the Getting Started section “Interpret frame rate of linked files” for steps on fixing this issue so you can follow this lesson.

Preserving your rough edit in Adobe Premiere Pro

Because you are continuing with a previous version of this edit, you’ll first save a new version of your sequence. This allows you to go back to the previous version if need be and is a recommended best practice in the video editing workflow.

This just means that the project file was last saved on a machine that was using a graphics processing unit (GPU) that is not present on the current machine. Again, don’t panic. Just click OK and carry on.

Change the name of the sequence to Poolside_BTS_02, press Return (Enter), and then drag it into the Sequences folder.

NOTE

If you are continuing from the last lesson, in which you were let loose to edit B-roll clips into the Timeline at your discretion, some of the exercises in this lesson may require you to make minor changes to your edits.

Having multiple Timelines open simultaneously can be useful in certain situations, but it can also be confusing. For the time being, you’ll close the first Timeline to eliminate the possibility of accidentally modifying the wrong sequence.

In the Timeline, click the Poolside_BTS_01 tab to select it.

Press Command+W (Ctrl+W) to close this sequence.

The new sequence is now the only one visible in the Timeline, which will ensure that you are working on the most recent iteration.